imistic, angry and bitter
thoughts we drive away sickness and misfortune to a great extent, and
that by seeking the kinder and happier frame of mind we seek at the
same time success and health and good luck, we will find a new impetus
in the control of our mental forces.

For we all love to be paid for our worthy deeds, even while we believe
in being good for good's sake only. And nothing in life is surer than
this:

RIGHT THINKING PAYS LARGE DIVIDENDS.

_Think_ success, prosperity, usefulness. It is much more profitable
than thinking self-destruction or the effort at self-destruction for
that is an act which aims at an impossibility. You can destroy the
body, but the _you_ who suffers in mind and spirit will suffer still,
and live still. You will only change your location from one state to
another. You did not make yourself, you cannot unmake yourself. You
can merely put yourself among the spiritual tramps who hang about the
earth's borders, because they have not prepared a better place for
themselves.

Suicide is cheap, vulgar and cowardly. Because you have made a wreck
of a portion of this life, do not make a wreck of the next.

Mend up your broken life here, go along bravely and with sympathy and
love in your heart, determined to help everybody you can, and to better
your condition as soon as possible. Men have done this after fifty,
and lived thirty good years to enjoy the results.

Do not feel hurt by the people who slight you, or who refer to your
erring past. Be sorry for them. I would rather be a tender-hearted
reformed sinner than a hard-hearted model of good behavior.

I would rather learn sympathy through sin than never learn it at all.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.
There is nothing we cannot be in the way of nobility and worth.

Royalty

We get what we give. I have never known this rule to fail in the long
run. If we give sympathy, appreciation, goodwill, charitable thoughts,
admiration and love--we receive all these back from humanity in time.

We may bestow them unworthily, as the sower of good seed may cast it on
a rocky surface, but the winds of heaven will scatter it broadcast,
and, while the rock remains barren, the fields shall yield a golden
harvest.

_The seed must be good_, however.

If I say to myself without any real regard for another in my heart, "I
want that person to like me, I will do all in my power to please him,"
I